Re: [GENERAL] BIG Data and Perl

This is slightly unrelated (well, maybe more than slightly) but what is the
advantage to using cursors over normal SELECT statements? I know from
experience that just using an execute("SELECT...") and fetchrow_array
doesn't go wild with memory usage, as long as you remember to close your
statement handles.

At 11:48 PM 10/17/99, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
>At 09:52 AM 15-10-1999 -0500, Andy Lewis wrote:
>>I've got a fairly good size database that has in one table around 50,000
>>records in it.
>>
>>It starts of and processes the first 300-400 rows fast and then gets
>>slower in time and eventually just quits. It'll run for about 4-6 hours
>>before it quits.
>>
>>Any idea what may be going on here?
>
>Maybe you're running out of memory. Your perl script may be reading too
>much into memory.
>
>When using the perl DBI module, I get the impression that the perl script
>reads in all the results when you do
>$cursor->execute
>
>I don't know if there are any ways around this. It can be a bit
>inconvenient if the result is large ;).
>
>Cheerio,
>
>Link.
>
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